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India and Nepal 2022
I have travelled three hours on the bus with Ramesh to visit the birthplace of Siddhartha Gautam, better known throughout the world as Buddha. Today is also the Holi festival of colours which is a very popular annual event in the calendar for people of the Terai. We see a number of groups on the street with many colours of powder in their hair, on their face and all over their clothes. It looks a great fun day! Lumbini is only a short distance to the border with India and is Nepal's greatest historical site. I stepped inside the enclosed building where the archaeological site of his birthplace is displayed including the precise location where a worldwide phenomenon began back in 623BCE. I must say, the hairs went up on the back of my neck to think the child who gave his name to Buddhism two and a half thousand years ago was born right at the spot where I was standing. The site also contains the original pool where Siddhartha's mother bathed him when he was young. Additionally the wider area is now part of an ambitious project to create a World Peace Park and a number of countries have built or are building Buddhist temples in their countries style within the vast complex.
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Margita Awesome poster, with all the hands. The message is universal. When did the world forget and decide to make war over it?